San Francisco County Biographies
DR. JOSEPH FRANKLIN TWIST
Transcribed 12-6-04 Marilyn R. Pankey
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Whose office is at No. 906 Market street, San
Francisco, was born in Los Angeles, California, in June, 1855, and is of English
and Spanish descent, his father, Captain W. W. Twist, of the United States
regular army, being a native of Massachusetts, and his mother of the pure
Castilian stock, her grandfather having come to California from Spain before the
Mexican independence, and settled in Santa Barbara. Dr. Twist's father was
stationed in Los Angeles in the '50s. He later served in the war of the
Rebellion, in which he lost his life in the service of his country.
The subject of this sketch received his early education in the schools of
Los Angeles. In 1881 he entered the dental department of the University of
California, the first matriculate of that department, where he remained two
years, passing the regular examinations of that school. Immediately after
graduating he entered upon the practice of his profession, in which he has
continued since that time in San Francisco, where he has built up an extensive
patronage. Dr. Twist if a member of the State Dental Association of California.
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 1, page 635, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.